Today I bought my first Christmas CD of the year. Starbucks - Winter Wonderland. It has a wonderful variety of Christmas tunes from KT Tunstall performing 2000 Miles by the Pretenders to Vince Guaraldi Trio performing Greensleeves. At the moment I'm listening to White Christmas as performed by Diana Krall. Memories come flooding through my mind: Four of my guy-friends singing an up beat a-capella version at a Christmas party; a true White Christmas at my home last year; the annual watching of White Christmas starring Bing Crosby; watching a Charlie Brown Christmas with a mug of hot chocolate (picture shown); waking up at 9am to open presents in our pajamas and not finishing until the afternoon; a tremendous pile of bacon waiting for us after the presents are all open... Beautiful, beautiful memories.
Christmas is my favorite holiday and not for the reasons you may think. Yes, the presents are a huge bonus. But the best part about Christmas in Oregon is walking through the freshly rained apon parking lot at the mall with my family. We all go in and split up according to who we need to buy for. Later in the day, we'll gather for dinner and then split up again. Decorations cover the mall and the stores all show wonderful gifts in abundance. I love shopping with my family.
To add even more joy to Christmas, everyone gets nice, long breaks from school. Christmas music is playing on every radio station, and everyone is walking around with a certain light in their eyes.
Christmas music.
The best part of Christmas is the music. The music can take you in and give you joy, sadness, and peace all in one bittersweet moment. It reminds you of Christmases past and makes you hopeful for many more to come.
Christmas music.
I love Christmas.
1 comment:
Lovely post! I like the Christmas shopping too! We must go soon.....
:-D Love you girl!
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